INTER-PROVINCIAL CRICKET MATCH.
To the Editor. Sir, — In a local in this morning’s issue of the Times, relative to the Eleven cbo«en to represent this Province in the Interprovincial Cricket match to be played at Christchurch next month. After saying that the team is a weak one, Ac., it goes on to state, ‘ There are many vicissitudes, however, in the game of cricket, and those who remember how an indifferent Otago team saved the Province from defeat at Christchurch, in 1869. . . . will not lose hope until the
match is lost.” Being one of the team that represented Otago in i860,1 feel bound to deny the statement that the team of 1869 was an “indifferent one.” Thereis no comparison betweeen that team and the one selected to play this year. As a cricketer, I consider that the team of 1869, although consisting chiefly of “ youngsters,” as the Christchurch people called them, was the strongest team Otago has ever mustered. It consisted of the following players :—Turton, G. K. (captain), Glasgow, Gavins, Collinson, Kettle, Fulton, J. C. ; Fn'ton, F. ; Hehdley, Haddock (the celebrated underhand bowler), Macdonuell, and Campbell.—l am, Ac , One of the Eleven of 1839.
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Evening Star, Issue 3099, 24 January 1873, Page 2
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194INTER-PROVINCIAL CRICKET MATCH. Evening Star, Issue 3099, 24 January 1873, Page 2
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